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Lamb shepherds Lancashire to eight-wicket victory
Visitors made light work of hefty Hampshire target to boost hopes of reaching knock-outs
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09-Jul-2025
Lancashire 175 for 2 (Lamb 66*, Jones 42, Smale 42) beat Hampshire 173 for 5 (Kemp 63, Norgrove 54) by eight wickets
Emma Lamb made her highest Women's Vitality Blast score to fire Lancashire Thunder to a third victory in a row and boost their chances of reaching the knockouts.
England international Freya Kemp had whacked 63 and Abi Norgrove celebrated her maiden Hawks fifty as the hosts reached 174 for five, after a rocky start.
Full postFreedom in final after Qualifier 1 abandoned due to heavy rain
With no reserve day scheduled, Freedom advanced directly to the final, having finished first on the points table
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09-Jul-2025
Texas Super Kings vs Washington Freedom - Match abandoned due to rain
The Qualifier 1 between Texas Super Kings and Washington Freedom in the MLC 2025 was washed out after relentless rain, with only toss possible. With no reserve day scheduled, Freedom advanced directly to the final, having finished first on the points table during the league stage. This will be Freedom's second final in two years.
The match was officially called off at 9.45pm local time in Dallas - two hours and 45 minutes after the scheduled start of play at 7pm, and 41 minutes before the cut-off time for a five-overs-a-side game.
Full postSomerset ride into quarter-finals on back of Tom Kohler-Cadmore 90
Essex lose again as Matt Henry four-for confirms crushing win for South Group leaders
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08-Jul-2025
Somerset 225 for 6 (Kohler-Cadmore 90, Amir 3-22) beat Essex 130 (Henry 4-21) by 95 runs
Tom Kohler-Cadmore smashed a brilliant half-century to propel Somerset to a convincing 95-run victory over Essex Eagles at the Cooper Associates Ground and guarantee the runaway South Group leaders a place in the quarter-finals of the Vitality Blast.
In scintillating form beneath the Taunton floodlights, Kohler-Cadmore staged a breathtaking innings of 90 from just 39 balls, striking eight fours and seven sixes and dominating stands of 88 and 55 with Will Smeed and Tom Abell for the second and third wickets respectively as Somerset ran up an imposing 225 for 6 after Essex had won the toss. Smeed scored 32, Sean Dickson weighed in with 28 not out and, amid the carnage, Mohammad Amir emerged as the only Essex bowler to escape punishment, the Pakistan international returning stand-out figures of 3 for 22 from four overs.
Full postWilson, Wellington combine for Somerset's first win
Esmae MacGegor takes 3 for 19 but Essex succumb in final over
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08-Jul-2025
Somerset 156 for 6 (Wilson 41, MacGregor 3-19) Essex 155 for 5 (Grewcock 45) by four wickets
Amanda-Jade Wellington played a match-winning innings under pressure as Somerset beat Essex by four wickets at Taunton's Cooper Associates Ground to register their first win of the Vitality Blast T20 campaign in their tenth game.
The Australian international raised 29 from 23 balls, struck four fours and shared in a crucial stand of 45 off 29 balls for the fourth wicket with Fran Wilson, who contributed 41, as the home side chased down a victory target of 156 with three balls to spare.
Full postDominant South Africa wrap up 2-0 sweep inside three days
South Africa needed a little over two sessions to bundle Zimbabwe out and win by an innings
Himanshu Agrawal
08-Jul-2025
South Africa 626 for 5 dec (Mulder 367*, Bedingham 82, Chivanga 2-112) beat Zimbabwe 170 (Williams 83*, Subrayen 4-42, Yusuf 2-20) and 220 (f/o) (Welch 55, Bosch 4-38, Muthusamy 3-77) by an innings and 236 runs
A complete mismatch of a Test in Bulawayo ended within two sessions on the third day, as Wiaan Mulder alone scored only 23 runs lesser than what Zimbabwe's entire line-up managed across two innings. But even that happened when, at nine wickets down after being asked to follow-on, an outside edge off Wellington Masakadza dribbled away for four wide of the slips.
The tenth-wicket stand between Masakadza and Tanaka Chivanga frustrated South Africa for nearly nine overs, but couldn't prevent an innings defeat. South Africa comprehensively won by an innings and 236 runs to wrap the series 2-0 after confining Zimbabwe to their heaviest defeat by runs in the first Test of the series. It was South Africa's tenth Test win on the trot, including their victory over Australia in the WTC 2025 final last month.
Full postKusal 124 forms the centrepiece of Sri Lanka's series victory
Asitha Fernando and Dushmantha Chameera picked up three wickets each to bowl Bangladesh out for 186 chasing 286
Andrew Fidel Fernando
08-Jul-2025
Sri Lanka 285 for 7 (Kusal 124, Asalanka 58, Mehidy 2-48, Taskin 2-51) beat Bangladesh 186 (Hridoy 51, Asitha 3-33, Chameera 3-51) by 99 runs
Kusal Mendis crashed 124 off 114, Sri Lanka's seamers took three wickets apiece, and Sri Lanka surged to a series win, defeating Bangladesh by 99 runs in the deciding ODI.
The centrepiece of Sri Lanka's batting was the 124-run partnership between Kusal and Charith Asalanka, who made 58 off 68. Bangladesh's bowlers did well either side of that partnership, particularly at the death, conceding only 62 off the last 10 overs.
Full postMayes seals chase as England U19s land consolation victory
Seamers restrict free-flowing India before top-order knock off target with 113 balls to spare
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07-Jul-2025
England U19 211 for 3 (Mayes 82*, Dawkins 66, Rew 49*) beat India U19 210 for 9 (Ambrish 66*, Albert 2-24, French 2-37) by seven wickets
England U19s ended their Youth ODI series against India on a high with an impressive seven-wicket victory at Visit Worcestershire New Road.
The tourists took the series by a 3-2 margin but England deservedly won the final game after an excellent bowling display restricted India's power-packed batting line-up to 210 for nine. A strong collective effort saw all six bowlers take wickets with Ralphie Albert (two for 24) and Alex French (two for 37) most impressive. Only RS Ambrish (66 not out from 81 balls) passed 40.
Full postMulder's 367* headlines SA's day of domination
South Africa enforced the follow-on on Zimbabwe who collapsed in 43 overs
Shashank Kishore
07-Jul-2025
Zimbabwe 170 (Williams 83*, Subrayen 4-42, Yusuf 2-20) and 51 for 1 (f/o) (Kaitano 34, Myers 11, Bosch 1-21) trail South Africa 626 for 5 dec (Mulder 367*, Bedingham 82, Chivanga 2-112) by 405 runs
July 7, 2025 may not invoke the same grand feeling of that unforgettable summer afternoon at Lord's last month, but it'll still have a reverence of its own for Wiaan Mulder, who, only weeks earlier, stood on the winner's podium as a newly crowned World Test Champion.
One of cricket's most iconic and celebrated records - Brian Lara's majestic 400 not out, which he held like a crown jewel after reclaiming it from Matthew Hayden - was in real danger of being knocked off its perch after 21 long years. When Mulder, South Africa's stand-in captain, went into the lunch interval unbeaten on 367, it seemed a matter of time before history books would be rewritten. Then came a quiet message from the change room, like a bolt from the blue. South Africa had declared. Mulder had declared.
Full postFletcher 118 helps Knight Riders sign off with win and scuttle Unicorns' top-two plans
The defeat in the final league match of MLC 2025 meant San Francisco Unicorns finished third on the table, and will have to play the Eliminator
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07-Jul-2025
Los Angeles Knight Riders 243 for 3 (Fletcher 118, Hales 58, Rutherford 49, Gore 1-22) beat San Francisco Unicorns 233 (Krishnamurthi 92, Hammad 38, Hassan 35, Gattepalli 3-31, Holder 2-28, van Schalkwyk 2-44) by 11 runs (DLS method)
Los Angeles Knight Riders notched up only their second win of MLC 2025, but did it at the worst possible time for San Francisco Unicorns, denying them a chance of making the top two on the points table.
Unicorns gave the massive chase of 244 their best shot, but it was firstly too many runs, and secondly, they missed the services of Romario Shepherd with the bat, after he hared in off the boundary line to try and take a catch in the first half, hurt his ankle, and wasn't available for the rest of the game.
Full postMaxwell bags three again as Freedom thump MI New York
MI New York finished fourth on the league table, while Washington Freedom topped the table and will now play Texas Super Kings in Qualifier 1
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07-Jul-2025
Washington Freedom 113 for 4 (Gous 46*, Luus 2-39) beat MI New York 112 for 8 (Kunwarjeet 33, Maxwell 3-29, Phillips 2-3) by six wickets
With a spot in the MLC 2025 playoffs assured - though as the fourth-placed team, well behind the top three - MI New York gave a bunch of their bench-warmers a go, and found little to take with them into the business end of the tournament.
Opposite them, Washington Freedom played like the dominant team they have been all tournament, putting in a clinical performance to run out victors, and get to the top of the table, where they stayed after Los Angeles Knight Riders beat San Francisco Unicorns in the late match of the day.
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